Female Sales Employee Forced to Box on the Job–and Box a male no less! Vivian Mondello went to work as a saleswoman at a Manhattan Company in New York. Little did 30-year-old Vivian Mondello know or imagine that she would soon be engaged in a boxing match with a male, for a promotional video for
A federal judge in Michigan refused to allow Jill Lafler, 19 years old, to compete in the Golden Gloves. Jill, a student at Lansing Community College, who has been working out with the men’s boxing team, had tried to register last month for the gloves but was turned down. She appealed and Ingham County Circuit
By Jack Newfield – Published November 1979 – Volume. One – Originally printed in the VOICE Vol. XXIII No. 41 “The Weekly Newspaper of New York, October 16, 1978 Cat Davis is a kinky media phenomenon, a product of the Great American Hype Machine, just like Tiny Tim or Jerry Rubin. She has been profiled by People
On May 14, 1926, there was a story coming in from New York, in the REGISTER, in Ohio [page four], that Charlotte Podlion, 50 years old, was suing a 72 year old woman by the name of Mrs. Charles S. Keene, the wife of a former vice president of the American Tobacco company, for the
Early Reports on Mixed Boxing in 1916! One of the earliest documented materials that WBAN found was dated February 29, 1916. The article stated, “Helen Hildreth, the Lady Pugilist, was having the best of it in a mixed fight with Johnny Atkinson when Police and Boxing Commissioner Fred Wenck jumped into the RING and ordered